For those lining up to vote at the old library in downtown Charleston, the upcoming election is as much a referendum on Donald Trump’s most loyal lieutenant as it is on the president himself. Mr Trump may be top of the ticket but Lindsey Graham, Republican grandee and staunch Trump ally, is key to the party’s struggle to keep control of the Senate. The 65-year-old three-term incumbent senator is facing the toughest fight of his political life from Jaime Harrison, a rising Democrat star who has managed to break all fundraising records and galvanise anti-Trump anger across the country. “Graham and Trump are two sides of the same coin,” said 38-year-old designer Angela Morrison, thumping a red, white and blue “I voted” sticker on her chest outside the Charleston County Public Library. “A lot of people don’t like what they’ve seen, but a lot of South Carolinians are also scared of change.” A recent Quinnipiac poll had Mr Graham and Mr Harrison, 44, the first black chairman of the state Democratic Party and a former school teacher, in an unexpected tie in the ruby red state.
